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Post-Apocalypse on the East Coast

hey i am fairly new to the Post Apocalypse game setting, though i love the genre, my gaming players also like to play "local" games since we know the area, and the game seems more relevent when we have a gun fight at Florida Field (go Gators) then say at LAX. Would Florida have survived an apocalyptic event? whats your take?

If it was due to a meteor hitting the center of the Pacific, most of the land of Florida would be there, but the tidal wave that hit after the impact has been theorized at pretty much erasing everything else, including all of the vegetation from coast to coast. We don't have high enough land to stop it at any point as it travels across the state.

If it was due to some kind of nuclear war, I'm pretty sure portions of the state would survive because we don't have any active fault lines in the state, so we wouldn't have to worry about such things as volcanoes or massive land destroying earthquakes.

Oh yeah, and while we have the occasional military base and massive population center, they’re pretty isolated, so you’d still have major parts of the state around.

If it was due to some kind of biological plague, well, those kinds of plagues only destroy animal life or plant life, so the land would still be here.

If it was due to some kind of major flood, we’ll we’re kinda back to the meteor strike, except that you wouldn’t have any land above sea if the seas rose too much! You might have the occasional high rise poking through the flood waters, which could make for some really interesting gaming scenarios. Once again, it depends on how much water is added to the seas.

If you really want to make sure you’ve got Florida still around after the apocalypse, just use which ever scenario you want and modify it so that Florida survives. If your players really want to play in their local area, they should be ok if you take some artist license when writing up the game background.

Personally, I’ve run apocalypse scenarios in Florida, from zombies to aliens and each time, the PCs have been able to play in our local area and we’ve had lots of fun!

Consider that Planet of the Apes (the original one with Charlton Heston) is a post-apocalyptic 2nd American Civil War movie.

Also I would suggest you consider the range of post-apocalyptic games out there. There's everything from Rifts to Paranoia even to The End, and they're pretty much all worth looking at for at least one reason or another.

Well, with Globalization, you gotta find a way to isolate US from the rest of the world, or does the US take everybody down with it?

Even if you isolate us from the rest of the world, there's a good chance for collapse of the global economy anyways. The US consumes so much of the world's resources, if we collapsed, quite a few other countries would follow suit. Not saying everyone would just because we collapse, but it could start such a domino effect that the entire world economy might go along with us in that same hand basket!

How much it affected the other countries would depend on how self-sufficient they could become!

hey i am fairly new to the Post Apocalypse game setting, though i love the genre, my gaming players also like to play "local" games since we know the area, and the game seems more relevent when we have a gun fight at Florida Field (go Gators) then say at LAX. Would Florida have survived an apocalyptic event? whats your take?

too bad my Seminole war band cant come and whoop all your butts j.k the Seminole gaming community is DEAD or at best in hiding

lol i think u missed the gist of my messege there is no gaming war band they are all dead or in hiding wish i did have one itd be awesome to conduct a massive pvp FSU vs UF hehehe

So what you need to do is start wandering around the city and find new warriors! Recruit my fellow Floridian, find those young braves and take them through the rights of passage and form a new war band!

Seriously, I can't believe in a college town, there aren't any gamers! I'd go around the the different comic/gaming stores and see if you can post info to find gamers. Any store that I've ever been in has allowed it and if the owner doesn't want you to, don't do business with them!

Indeed good idea... that would be a good course of action that i have considered but have been somewhat afraid of.. I will do it though

One other thing to consider, if you don't want to give the location of your teepee, meet with warrior recruits on neutral ground till you get an idea of whether they are worthy of joining the war band! If you get my drift!

One other thing to consider, if you don't want to give the location of your teepee, meet with warrior recruits on neutral ground till you get an idea of whether they are worthy of joining the war band! If you get my drift!

Oh and good luck with the search!

yea thats actually a great plan Tallahassee is notorious for robbery and shady characters... go ahead mention the football players and fans here gator bastards.. hopefully once i get a group together we can come down there and give you all a whoppin of course we will settle all rules etc well ahead of time so you all cant complain XD j.k